Chocolate Roll

This is our family's favorite desert. It's light and fluffy, but oh so bad for you. Tastes delicious and gluten free!

Candy Corn Cupcakes

Another day, another request from coworkers on what to bake. I'm not sure what it is about taking requests for baking that screws me up, but I always have some sort of error. This time around it happened to be the amount of batter I was putting into my cups causing them to flow up and out of the liners. I was doing a thin layer of the yellow and having a hard time getting the orange to layer in properly. I think they rose out of the liners a little differently than normal due to the extra moisture from the gel coloring.

They taste delicious aside from the actual candy corn on top. I can't believe people eat that stuff!

Brownie Cookie pie

At work we have what we call treat day Friday. A few weeks ago I was asked to make brownie cookie cups for my assigned day and I sure did try. I got everything together in my cupcake tins as per normal and put them in to bake. When I pulled them out of the oven the brownie top was burnt and all of the oil from the brownies had sunk to the bottom of the tin. No bueno... I thought I would give it one more shot and try it in pie form.

The pie turned out great, but I had to try a piece before bringing it in to work for my coworkers. Ghetto I know to have a slice out of a pie you're feeding to people, but seriously the first try was such a flop that I wasn't taking any chances. One thing I should mention is that I added Reeses peanut butter cups between the cookie and brownie layers and it was delicious!

Beautiful Vinyl Wall Art

First wall art with the Silhouette for the bathroom:

A little grounding reminder when I'm getting my vanity on.

Annabelle Fairy Princess Shirt

Annabelle is having a fairy birthday party this year so I've made her a fairy princess shirt. I didn't end up adding the number to the shirt, but will send an iron on to mindy that she can use on something else if she wants. I thought I would leave this one open so it might last beyond her birthday next year since I bought it a size bigger.

This project took a while, but I think it turned out really well.  I'm sorry that I started with a black shirt for Audrey.

Naked baby shirt!

Added details, but pending wings.

Face detail.

Added wings.

Wanted to personalize it with her name since it's the little Annabelle fairy princess.

Added sparkle for a finishing touch. I hope she likes it!

Graduation Necklace 2013

Graduation gift. Used red for the University color on the 2013 plate, but hard to see in the photo.

I also got her a Momiji doll which I love...

Graduating college in 2013... Freaks me out that it has now been 10 years since I graduated college myself. Getting old ahhhhhhhhh!!!

1st Birthday T-dress

I made this tshirt dress for my niece's first birthday. I wanted to try out the ink printing on black cloth. It turned out alright, but not what I really would have wanted for a birthday shirt.

Sparkly Crown Wall Art

My niece loves all things princess. When I visited for Thanksgiving we played princess at least 5 times each day. I have had this chip board crown since I got back from their house and just got around to finishing it up.

The sparklies say they shouldn't be eaten by anyone under 12. I guess those of us over 12 can chow down. Mindy don't let her gnaw on it.

Count Your Blessings

Second necklace which might end up as a charm anklet or bracelet. I'm not so sure on this one due to the size of the charms, but I think each piece is really cute.

Ignore the fact that I strung them backwards on the chain for English readers.

Inspiration from Pinterest.

Nana Necklace

My sister asked me to make some necklaces for grandmothers for Mother's day. My own mom won't wear jewelry or I'd make her all kinds of stuff!

Inspiration from Pinterest posts.

April Fool's Cake

As leaders we decided it might be a good idea to issue an April Fool's Day challenge to our teams with a few rules to try to stave off more elaborate antics. One of the things our team decided to do was to gift a cake to our suspicious victims. Although there is nothing at all wrong with the cake we hope they will be too afraid to test it. After a few hours our team plans to head over and start cutting and eating their cake to show them that their fear was unfounded. 

I tried out some fancy frosting techniques, but decided something messy with the green disco dust looked a little more suspicious. The center is filled with raspberry preserves. I've also been trying out adjustments for high altitude and I think it's helping my cake texture a lot. 

Bedroom Makeover

On a whim I decided to do a makeover for the bedroom this weekend. There needed to be plenty of room for the new Ikea closet and I got a little carried away.


Before:

It actually came about so quickly that I didn't even think to take pictures of how I had the room set up before, but this shows the coloring of the room. Curtains were brown and a bright golden color. I had a tuscan painting with golds and reds and my bedding was brown, gold, and red.


During:

You can see the comparison of colors.


After:

New cabinet is in place! Nice and shiny. That couch has got to go. It will be replaced with a black or white leather sofa. Mo sleeps on it so white is probably the better choice considering his massive shedding problem. 

Lil Schu is really tired of being in the bedroom for the day.

This little alcove above the fireplace is wired for cable and all, but my tv doesn't fit. I have no idea what to do with this space.

It will be a very long time before I paint a room again. I first painted the walls and prayed that my tan ceiling would look ok with the gray paint. No go. I HATE painting ceilings. After all the trouble to make that room unique my beige walls are looking really good throughout the rest of the house.

Songbird

This is located in a dark hallway of the basement so the color makes me feel kind of sick in the photo. I didn't know how to fix it. Overall I'm not sure if I like this or not. I bought the birds about a year ago and had the idea to add the Songbird sheet music along with them. 

Will they stay or will they go? I don't know...

Talk Nerdy To Me Shirt

I saw a shirt like this a few years ago, but forgot about it until now when I realized I could make it myself.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I bought a heart cake pan on clearance last year and thought it'd be great for Valentine's Day. I'm really incredibly lazy to bake or craft this weekend, but didn't want to miss my chance.

My frosting was lacking substance and is a little runny and sloppy on my cake. Glad I wasn't making this for anyone else...

Vanilla Mousse filling inside. Didn't have quite enough so the two halves didn't make a perfect heart. There's always next year...

Cake Boxes

Not sure what I'm going to put in these, but I thought they were really cute!

Strawberry Box

Strawberry boxes for Mindy and Geoff.

Super cute and super girly. Sorry Geoff.

Monster Shirt

My sister is throwing a monster Birthday party for my nephew. I had an extra shirt and assume Grant needed something else in the box of goodies shipping out to them this week. I hope it's not too boring.

Used ink printing and iron transfers. I also missed a little dot of iron transfer that ended up on the shirt in the lower mid left. dang it.

Ravens Cupcakes

Purple and gold cupcakes to support the Ravens in the Superbowl.

I don't actually care anything for football, but I sure do love the opportunity to make cupcakes! Ravens just happened to be the house favorite. Now, if The Patriots had made it I'd have supported them considering the hotness included.

Batman Shirt

My nephew loves Batman so my sister asked me if I could make him this shirt.

I love it!

Little Princess Dresses

Princess dresses for two little princesses!

I used the flocked iron transfer material for the yellow and white areas and regular transfer for the teal. The flocked iron transfer material is so easy to work with. I don't like fighting with all of the little corners on vinyl. The regular transfer is just like vinyl. Grrr! It helps when you remember to mirror your text the first time around too. Before you get it all peeled apart and ready to go... Grrr again!

I think these turned out pretty cute!

Live By Faith Stamped Metal Necklace

Stamped Necklace for Mindy:

The necklace reads, "live by faith" "not by sight". I actually made two versions of this as I didn't like the original. Mindy let me know if you like the one below better and I'll send it.